Postcards from Mexico City Art Week 2026

By WILLIAM STUART March 10th, 2026

I’ve been meaning to get to Mexico City for years.

In 2017, after finishing an installation for the Nomad Hotel in Los Angeles, I booked a flight to “DF”.

I boarded the plane, put in my AirPods, and lost track of time.

Forty minutes passed. We still hadn’t moved.

When I took them out, the cabin was full of crying people. Not babies. Adults. Consoling one another.

1:17 p.m.

September 19, 2017.

I had missed the largest earthquake in recent memory by minutes.

The plane taxied back to the gate. I wouldn’t see the city for another nine years. The city now calls itself CDMX.

 With a population of over nine million, 80,000 visitors barely make a dent.
 

We landed at 11 PM and went straight to Tacos del Valle. Get the bone marrow.
 

0 out of 15 Uber drivers knew it was art week.

I loved seeing little spots like this spilling onto the sidewalk.
It reminds me of my first workshop

Pro tip: The main fair doesn’t open until after noon on most days.

 

Loved these ceramic works by Nicolás Bonilla, represented by SGR-Art.
It’s like they are daring the city to try to shake them off that shelf.
 

As a furniture maker, I was pleased and slightly confused by these works
spread around the fair under the new FORMA moniker.
 

GAM was a stand out exhibition. Above, Gunther Gerzo. Below, Antoine Catala.
 

Antoine Catala.

Sonia Madrigal in dialog with Alejandro Cartagena at Patricia Conde.
I rode in the back of a pickup truck from New Orleans to Corpus Christi once. I don’t recommend it.

Atelier Van Lieshout at MASA x Modern Art. The city’s architecture can sometimes distract from the work.

I love a good gallery floor (RGR).
 

Casa Gilardi is famously built around a Jacaranda Tree. I wonder what they will do when it dies.

Who wore it better. Luis Barragan.
 

Bosco Sodi.
 

Start with the head at Maizajo.
 

The lines were longer for the food than most of the art and it was always worth it.
 

After
 

Ago Projects.

Acme felt a little disjointed.
 

Hot.

 

Not.
 

Unique Design X was my favorite of the week.
 

Jorge Yázpik at Marion Freedman
 

James de Wulf demoing his sonic ping pong table.

Unknown.
 

Plaga at Material.
 

Ishan Celemenco at Climate Control.
 

Leonor Antines at Kurimanzutto
 

Watch this space Bajo Bajio.
 

Also this. See you next year.